21.   By the end of the decade, the British Opericle had arrived in full force to fill the void left by an evaporating American musical theater.

22.   Choosing to write for the American musical theater is merely one of the surer routes.

23.   Coupled with that disillusionment was controversy over his belief in a multiracial American theater.

24.   Earlier this month, nine American playwrights gathered in Provincetown, Mass., to discuss the future of American theater.

25.   Either way, the widespread concern created by the case is testimony to the entrenched role of the dramaturge in nonprofit contemporary American theater.

26.   Last year, Hayley Mills toured American theaters in the same role Kerr played.

27.   Even his mildest cautionary pronouncements on the state of the American theater tend to have the moral force of something lifted from the Old Testament.

28.   Elaine Stritch, the acerbic, tough-love mother of the American theater, will take her one-woman show to the Public in October.

29.   For a community often dismissed as moribund, the American musical theater generates an impressive quantity of cassettes.

30.   God must love the American musical theater.